--- Marco Costalba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:34:56 -0700 (PDT) > From: Marco Costalba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [RFC] extending git-ls-files --exclude. > To: Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Catalin Marinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > >Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > >I imagined it, but it appears to me that this is a bad example. > >My understanding of what Catalin and the proposed patch > >disagrees is whether the patterns in .gitignore at the top level > >should govern files under ppc/ and mozilla-sha1/ subdirectories; > >Catalin thinks they should not. > > > >What I meant by "cumulative" (now I realize I might have > >misunderstood what Pasky wanted to mean by that word, though) > >was not just .gitignore in subdirectory being added, but the > >effect of patterns being added so far, either from the command > >line or by parent directories, last while in the deeper > >directories. > > > > This cumulative effect brakes local scoping of .gitignore files in > corresponding subdirectory. > > As example in a directory A we can have a .gitignore file with > > !foo.html > *.html > > because we want to special case 'that' foo.html > in 'that' directory. > > If for any reason in any of part of subdirectories tree > with base A there is (or there will be in the future) another > foo.html this will be automatically special cased because > of cumulative adding of patterns. > > This can be powerful and flexible but also prone to errors. > > Peraphs can be better to use just one file with global scope > (as example .git/exclude) and all the others .gitignore files > with scope local to their directory. > > > Marco > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
